Tension Quotes - Page 2

• Smile, smile , smile
  At your mind
  As often as possible.
  Your smiling will considerably reduce
  Your mind's tearing tension.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Confusion, Confusing, Mind

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• Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

  Mitch Albom

  Wrestling, Winning, Opposites

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• I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

  Erich Fromm

  Creativity, Acceptance, Self

  "Creative Expression: Creativity and Self Exploration". Book by Jennifer Freed, p. 39, 2007.

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• You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

  Sumantra Ghoshal

  Reality, Aspiration

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• Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

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• To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

  Byron Katie

  Fear, Business, Thinking

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.3, Random House

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• With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.

  Tara Brach

  Worry, Firsts, Emotion

  "The stress of the holidays — and 2016 — may make this the perfect time to try meditation". www.washingtonpost.com. December 5, 2016.

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• It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

  Eric Hoffer

  Opposites, Soul

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Waiting, Endurance

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• Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

  Lorrie Moore

  Surprise, Release, Buried

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• If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

  Amit Ray

  Stress, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2015). “Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath”, p.7, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Regret, Stress, Sadness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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• Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.

  Donald Curtis

  Life, Letting Go, Mean

  Donald Curtis (1961). “Your thoughts can change your life”

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• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Creativity, Perfection, Creative

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• It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Jobs, Mistake

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.20, Univ of California Press

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• Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.

  Tom Peters

  Change, People, Innovation

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• I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Block, Order

  Letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 Apr. 1963, in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1963, p. 81

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• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Pain, Lying

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• Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.

  Antoni Tapies

  Struggle, Reality, Ideas

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• Do you agree that when theres tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Balls, Want, Obsession

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• We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

  Stephen Covey

  Emotion, Disharmony, Internals

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• In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

  Ellen Goodman

  Firsts, Journalism, Goodman

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• You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

  F. Matthias Alexander

  Spiritual, Spirit, Translate

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• The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must honestly and accurately assess your current situation and how it relates to your greater vision. By doing this, you engage tension between what is and what can be. This tension is the primary creative force behind the manifestation of any outcome. It's as natural and powerful as the force of gravity.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Powerful, Creative, Vision

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